[MOBY-dev] xml dump of MOBY objects

[Martin Senger]

> Is there a tool, already written, that would dump  out the MOBY objects 
> in their XML format?
>
   Well, almost everything you get back from both Moby Central (registry)
and from Moby-native services are XML-based objects. So, for example, if
you want to get all service instances, you can use a Java client (but the
same is available in Perl) like this:

1) create a file (e.g. tmp/moby.txt) with this contents:

<findService><inputObjects>
<Input>
</Input>
</inputObjects>
<outputObjects>
<Output>
</Output>
</outputObjects>
<serviceType></serviceType>
<Category>moby</Category>
<authURI></authURI>
<expandObjects>1</expandObjects>
<expandServices>1</expandServices>
<authoritative>0</authoritative>
<keywords>
</keywords>
</findService>

2) call Java command-line client:

./run-cmdline-client -call findService tmp/moby.xml

And you get all service instances in XML.

   Was this what you were asking for?
   Regards,
   Martin

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